Anne Columbia
Founder & President, Columbia Group Realty Advisors, Inc.
Cambridge, MA 02142
Phone (617) 252-0000
Mobile (617) 538-1135
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Bio
Anne has over 30 years of strategic, management, financial, and commercial real estate experience, providing real estate advice to emerging and new economy companies. For the past 25 years Anne has been president of Columbia Group Realty Advisors, where she has completed hundreds of real estate transactions worth more than $1.5 billion for clients in Boston and around the world. Prior to Columbia Group, Anne worked on the leasing team at Tishman Speyer Properties in New York City and in Boston for Centros Properties, a British real estate development firm.
Anne’s professional accomplishments have been widely recognized by her peers and she has received the following awards over the years:
• Thames Valley, United Kingdom – Real Estate Executive of the Year 2015
• Suburban Office Deal of the Year Award – Greater Boston Real Estate Board 2013
• Life Science Deal of the Year Award – Greater Boston Real Estate Board 2005
• Distinguished Achievement in Investment Sales Award – Greater Boston Real Estate Board 1999
Anne has an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MALD from The Fletcher School, Tufts University, and a BA from Smith College. Anne is a leader in the community; she serves as Board Chair for Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, is a member of the Visiting Committee at Dana Farber Women’s Cancers Center and past Treasurer of the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA. In 2016 Anne was an official member of Massachusetts Governor Baker’s mission to Israel.
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